Wednesday, 23 August 2023

shyeheya

Walkthrough for yesterdays Mirror Labyrinth, explained by Jovi:
https://youtu.be/9736_yoG1ME
Congratulations to @kino for correctly guessing today's genre! A well deserved bonus otter for both you and your alter ego 🦦🦦

Mysterious, cold, eerie, that's what it feels like being back here, everything is somehow more quiet than it was before. I make a note of where the portal back is, and follow the path on my paper. As I turn a corner I see something slither out of the corner of my eye. From the sound alone I know it's the serpent from before. I stop moving, breathing, and try (but fail) to control my heartbeat

Uh oh, seems I was wrong before. As it continues past I count more than just the one head... We're dealing with a bigger beast here, a Hydra 🐉 It hasn't noticed me, I slip back behind a wall and try to relax. I glance to the empty vial in my pocket, who does this leader guy think I am?? Ok, ok... its just like all the other puzzles, one problem at a time, I've got this. My heartbeat settles again, I swallow my fear and turn the corner. "One problem at a time."

Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area with no loops (including 2x2s), that does not touch itself diagonally. Clued cells must be shaded, and are all of the shaded cells which are orthogonally adjacent to only one other. The shortest path along shaded cells from the “1” clue to another clue must occupy a number of cells equal to the value of that other clue, counting the clued cells themselves
Example Puzzle: https://tinyurl.com/23bb8ftd
Note: I've provided number mode for additional notation, to help with counting larger clues! Feel free to use that if you wish 😄

Solve in 3:30 or less for a Speedy Sloth 🦥
Solve in 8:00 or less for a Quick Crab 🦀
And all other correct solves earn a Gangly Gandaberunda 🐦

Solve on Penpa+: https://tinyurl.com/2alogn4o